this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
362 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

82549 readers
3790 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
362
Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them (www.npr.org)
submitted 11 hours ago by fuzzyfirefox@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
178 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Basically made a really sturdy pergola and then mounted solar panels to it. Ran that wiring to the MPPT, batteries and inverter in the garage. Put in a new small breaker box right next to the existing one, which made it real easy to just grab the wires for the critical loads and run them over to the new panel.

No need to worry about backfeeding, as I said they're parallel electrical systems, so it's not possible.